Chapter 118: Good Intentions

Qin Zhan said that he would take the two of them to the suburbs to see the big canal built by the government, Qin Zhigang and Qin Hei were really willing to play, and Qin Zhigang and Qin Hei ran quickly to the east in the luxury carriage of the county government, and ran six miles from the east gate out of Jinsha City to see the big canal that Struggle said. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

An earthen wall more than two feet high appeared on the horizon in the distance, and countless oxen and horses were pulling vehicles of various sizes to transport earth and stones to the earthen wall, and rows of horses connected by iron cables were ramming the earth with neat steps. Qin Zhigang was a little dizzy, he couldn't have imagined that the 'chain horse' was born under such circumstances, and he had never heard of the 'chain horse' in his previous life because it was invented because of construction, and the storyteller in the teahouse in his previous life said that the 'chain horse' was first in the early days of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and a famous general surnamed Luo invented the 'chain horse' in order to deal with the 'chain of cows'. Qin Zhigang guessed the next step at a glance, Qin Zhan would put on iron armor in order to increase the strength of rammed earth, chain horses, because the gravity of iron armor is evenly dispersed, and horses are not easy to be damaged due to loading.

Sure enough, Qin Zhan looked at the horse team on the earthen wall proudly and said: "I call this 'chain horse', I beg Brother Liangpi to send soldiers and horses to help me complete it, he now has 100,000 troops and 200,000 excellent military horses, and every three days we send 5,000 men and horses to the big canal to ram the earth, which not only trains the troops but also enriches the people." I didn't treat the soldiers badly, I gave them ten big fat pigs weighing three hundred pounds every day, and a hundred taels of silver for their hard work, and I heard that the soldiers rushed to help us, and they had to compete there, and only those who won could line up to ram the earth. Next, I'm going to coat the horses with iron armor to increase the efficiency of ramming earth, which can be reduced from 10 times to 7 times!"

Qin Zhigang lowered the curtain of the car window and said: "Uncle, this is to train the 'Iron Armored Chain Horse'! Add iron palms to these chain horses, and send someone to find my uncle, he has horseshoe skills, and 200,000 iron horseshoe is a big business." ”

Struggle happily agreed, he had heard about the iron palm, and he also knew the effect of the iron palm, and knew that this thing would be used for a long time after nailing it, and he was equivalent to sending 800,000 iron palms to the military camp, but he would let the soldiers earn back the gold and silver.

Qin Zhigang could also guess the idea of struggle, but in this case, he was not prepared to correct these thoughts, so many house slaves from the three major families had to be sent, and not long ago he received nearly 400,000 troops, all of which required a lot of consumption to maintain. Especially the army, they are more expensive than the two million apes and two million horses sent by the demon clan, and the army not only has to eat and drink, but they also need to train, equipment and silver. This army of nearly 400,000 is a trap sent by the three major families, if the Qin family can digest it, it can be regarded as the fifth family if it is digested well. Opportunities come with risks, if you want the soldiers to return to their hearts, you have to give both grace and might, which is twice as many soldiers as the local population, and the Qin family is a real big family, and if you can't feed the imperial court, you will help the Qin family, but how many times has the imperial court helped? Of course, the Qin family can support these soldiers, and also raise elite soldiers, so that they can earn some strength and money, they will be satisfied a lot, and the Qin family can also reduce a lot of consumption, Qin Zhigang will not be so stupid to jump out and object.

As the carriage got closer and closer to the big water canal, he said with great interest: "This is just one of the three big water canals, and we are going to build a total of three big water canals to surround the entire JS county in the big water canal." We are now just under the aqueduct, we can't see the situation above, there is a passage above it that can run the next carriage, and the whole aqueduct is the city wall. This wall is not used to defend against foreign enemies, but to keep out thieves, and in the past year or so we have captured many people who have come to steal seeds and seedlings, who do not belong to any family, but because they are hungry for our food production. I really can't do it, if I do it according to our laws and regulations of Daqin, these people will be picked off and their tendons will be broken, and they will be tattooed on their faces and become official slaves for life, and I am also from a poor people, so I really can't do it. I also mentioned to my father-in-law, and my father-in-law was not willing to do anything to these people, they were all from neighboring counties, and my father-in-law asked me to send some seeds to send these people home. As a result, more people came to steal our seedlings, and I asked the officials to catch these people and give them a whip, and then there were fewer cases of stealing seedlings, but many of the seedlings that were beyond the reach of the whip and the outlying ones were still stolen. The loss is very large, it is estimated that the harvest of the entire JS county has been reduced by 30%, and the people who stole the seedlings were exploited by the powerful in their own county, and the seedlings were finally planted in the official fields of the neighboring counties. These county order colleagues of mine can be said to be extremely brazen, they sent the mature seeds back to the major families, ignored the matter of exploiting the people, and instead let those powerful people come forward to fund the theft, saying that our Qin family can't do mercy to the people, let them continue to come! Therefore, I want to build this big canal, the water depth is five feet, the canal is one foot wide, it can be used by boats and can store water, and the stones used are all black stones that have not been broken for thousands of years, all of them come from the waterway, and we load the cement on the ship and transport it to the black stone county, but we also make a lot of money. In order to cooperate with the water transportation, we have built a lot of small roads by the river, and in some places where the water is turbulent, we have hired local people to pull the fiber and reduce a lot of boat personnel, and the waterway has been very prosperous. The problem is that there is too little water in the three-mile long canal that has been built, and the water is not fast enough to use manpower to drive the water, and the transmission device has to be added to the oxen and horses, which is very troublesome. ”

Speaking of which, the carriage has run to the riverside, and in the dry season, the Jinsha River is still ten zhang wide, and human beings seem very small, but standing on the embankment and looking at the dense ant-like crowd by the river when they are working, there is a strange feeling that people will win the day. Half of this riverbank embankment is natural and half artificial, and it takes 500 steps to walk from the embankment to the river's edge, but the straight-line height is only 150 feet. According to the county records, more than 100 years ago, there was a big flood in the Jinsha River, and the entire JS County and Fengxian County were all submerged, and the flood raged for seven days before receding, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the flood. Everyone has a deep understanding of the Jinsha River, and the imperial court assigned the Li family, which is the strongest in construction, to build a water conservancy embankment, so there is now a semi-natural and semi-artificial embankment, and after JS County was handed over to the Qin family, it was strengthened and heightened regardless of the cost.

Qin Zhigang could feel the power of the sky, he knew that there would be no more big floods in JS County in his lifetime, this was God's favor for him, but he was not ready to tell Qin Zhan about this, the truth of preparedness should be followed by the whole world. If JS County had such a water conservancy as it is now, the disaster would not have caused the death of hundreds of thousands of people, and the lessons of blood and life should be remembered by the world for a long time.

Crowds along the river are digging sand and gravel from the riverbed, and many large waterwheels are carrying water from the wells dug by the river to the upper level, and every 50 steps a row of waterwheels are placed to transport the clear water from the riverside wells into the canals. If there are earthlings here, they will definitely think that these people are crazy, and they are completely doing stupid things that don't matter, but Qin Zhigang feels that this kind of practice is simply great, and this is by relying on complete manpower to fight against the sky. A long time ago, the Qin Dynasty on the earth used several generations to build Dujiangyan, and thousands of years later, Dujiangyan is still playing a huge role. Qin Zhigang watched silently, feeling a lot, Qin Hei ran to the riverside to choose beautiful stones, and struggled to let a few officials follow Qin Hei, and stayed by Qin Zhigang's side to wait for his suggestion.

Qin Zhigang stared at the river for a long time before saying to Qin Zhan: "Uncle, I want to eat live water fish fillet tonight, the fresh fish in this river must be very delicious." Remove the scales and nails, pick the gills and clear the belly, use a small blade to form a thin slice, wrap it in soybean flour and put it in the fresh soup to cook, it is very delicious!"

Qin Zhan immediately recruited a catcher to ask him to buy fresh fish, and then said to Qin Zhigang: "Does the chairman have a way? Don't tease your uncle, if you want to eat fish fillets, I have already asked people to do it, and you should tell me how to solve the current difficulties!"

Qin Zhigang smiled and said, "Uncle asked you to untie your two horses pulling the cart, and you will know that it is not a problem at all!"

Qin Zhan said: "Okay! I'll untie them immediately, this is a horse clan that is about to become a fine and will not lose its temper and hurt people, but you said that it is not a problem, I don't understand, I have even thought about asking the demon clan to use demon magic to get into the water, but they said that it is impossible at all, unless it is a dozen big demons who keep launching demon magic, and no one can resist such a huge consumption of little demons." ”

A demon clan guard stood on the side and said with a smile: "Maybe the strong man is outside the ranks, but he alone still can't resist for too long!"

Soon, the fast horse of the carriage was untied, Qin Zhigang asked the horse to lower his head and say a few words to the horse's ears, and the horse grinned! Qin Zhan saw that the horse was laughing, and he didn't feel strange, he had seen too much of this kind of thing and was numb, but he was very strange What did Xiao Gang say to the horse?

The two horses refreshed their muscles like people, trotted all the way down to a waterwheel, and took the person who was stepping on the waterwheel away, and put their front hooves on the handrail like a human and pedaled the waterwheel rhythmically with their hind hooves.

Qin Zhan was dumbfounded, it turned out that it was really not a difficult thing, there were not many horse clans that became fine, but there were many who were about to become fine, these two horses were more powerful than ten people, the waterwheel was stepping on the grid, and the well water was tumbling up.

Qin Zhigang looked at Qin Zhan who was in a daze and said: "Uncle, it's okay to reinforce all these waterwheels, but these horses that can tread waterwheels have to do what they want to eat according to the standard of second-level food, change them once every hour, and change them for two hours before they can get on the waterwheel again, you better arrange four horses per group to tread the waterwheel, and each waterwheel has five groups, so that they won't stop working even at night, you can even save torches, they don't need torches to see at night." ”

Qin struggled and was overjoyed, with these fast-growing horses, he could save a lot of wages, so cheap that it was the same as ordinary cattle and horses, and the price was only two hundred yuan a month, but then Qin Zhigang said something that made him sad.

Qin Zhigang said: "Oh! I forgot, I promised them to give every horse that can tread a waterwheel a meal of mushroom and meat stuffed buns!"

Qin Zhan said heartbrokenly: "The first-level food standard is corn without vegetables, the second-level standard is corn with vegetables and a small amount of meat, the third-level standard is white rice, vegetables and meat, the fourth-level standard is four dishes and one soup with steamed buns, the fifth-level standard is big fish and meat, and the sixth-level standard is the characteristic umami." You let each of them eat a level 6 standard meal, do you know how much it costs?"

The demon clan guards all covered their mouths and smiled, if these foodies use the standard of sixth-level food, it is not enough to eat a full meal!

Qin Zhigang smiled and said: "Uncle, don't feel sorry for your money, your transaction with Blackstone County is a transaction that bypasses the official government of the Chamber of Commerce, and the gold and silver you get are not more than a thousand taels a day? You don't even have to hand over the tax money to the imperial court, let these friends of the demon clan have a big meal, maybe it can also inspire their self-motivation! You won't lose money, they will be the headquarters of JS County after they become elites, and they can help JS County do a lot of things before they become demons." ”

When Qin Zhan heard Qin Zhigang say this, Le's face turned into a chrysanthemum. In order to remind Qin Zhan what reality is, the demon clan guards said: "Many ordinary horses are stuck at this pass, even if one of the thousand ordinary horses can become a sperm, it is considered lucky, and the minimum life span after becoming a spirit is at least five hundred years, but our horse clan will definitely become a demon if it becomes a demon, and the minimum lifespan after turning into a demon is also three thousand years." But it's not easy to become a sperm, so don't be too happy!"

The struggle is not smiling, but Qin Zhigang said with certainty: "At least thirty percent can become fine, and everyone will know soon!"

The demon clan guards were overjoyed, and they all bowed and said, "Only with Mr. Quan's kindness can we have this blessing!" The two horses on the waterwheel stepped on the waterwheel even harder, and hurriedly shouted: "Slow down, this is wood, but you can't stand your hard work!" caused everyone to laugh, and Qin Hei also ran back with a lot of stones.

Qin Zhigang pointed to the stone in Qin Hei's arms and said, "Uncle, what do you think this is?"

Struggle said, "Isn't this just a stone?"

Qin Hei raised his neck and said, "My younger brother Xiaogang usually says this with money, this is money!"

The struggle was like beating chicken blood all of a sudden, beckoning the officials to rush to the river to find stones, and the demon guards were also a little ready to move.

Qin Zhigang read slowly: "The soil in front of the door is exhausted, there is no tile on the top, the ten fingers are not stained with mud, and the scales live in the building." If it's for money, why bother picking up the stones yourself? Isn't it okay to use the money to collect and then hire someone to process the stones and sell them?" This was originally used by the Northern Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen to satirize the local tyrants, and when Xiao Gang, who was close to six years old, became a famous sentence for educating the local tyrants, at that time Xiao Gang only had a few demon guards and servants around him, but this short, clear and rhyming sentence spread like this, and even the poor people were inspired by how to start a business.

Before the struggle reached the river, he saw the galloping wings descending from the sky, so he had to run back with the officials, and the galloping wings carried a string of golden tickets tied with cotton ropes, each with a thousand posts, a total of twenty posts. He thought that Mr. Xiaogang spent too much money, and he was afraid that it would not be enough, so he took 20,000 gold tickets back from Xincheng Bank.

Qin Zhigang counted out ten pieces of the golden ticket and handed it to the struggle and said: "Uncle, this is a golden ticket, count me to invest in you to manage, I will take seventy percent of the profit, and you will account for three percent of the profit." Why bother to pick up such good-looking stones yourself? You still have so many important things to do, and you don't want to do things yourself that you can do with money!" The last sentence was heard by the struggle in my heart, and since then there has been another famous sentence in the world.

Qin Zhan really took the money easily, and asked Xiao Gang if he wanted to give him the work of processing stones, Qin Zhigang said that the matter of processing stones was handed over to the royal family to do, and the profits could not be taken up by his own family, and there was no place to sell this thing for the time being. Qin Zhigang had to wait for the entire Great Qin's economy to rise to a certain height before selling these luxury goods, and now he planned to buy the things he made with his own money, and anyone who dared to play with him could also take them with him. Qin Zhan's courage to play the economy is very big, but he doesn't have so much capital, and Xiao Gang can make a lot of money to take him to buy Shizier. He can also see that the finished stone will be handed over to the Chamber of Commerce to operate, and the JS County he manages is very busy, and hundreds of thousands of slaves will arrive soon. The families of those criminals are not under the control of Qin Zhan, they will go directly to the mountain to listen to the arrangements of the elder group.

Qin Zhigang looked at the horses pulling the cart and called for Pentium Wing to take the fresh fish prepared for him by the struggle and go back to the new city with Qin Hei, Qin Zhan carried a large bundle of golden tickets and continued to inspect the construction site waiting for those new Jinsha people, and the posture of a local tyrant was revealed.

When Shen Shi arrived at the compound, the two saints and a master were still there to break the way of heaven, Qin Zhigang turned around and wanted to run, but was stopped by Li Siran and asked him to say a few words. Qin Zhigang pointed to the galloping wing and said, "The ostrich leader has a lot of fresh fish to deal with, I'll go to the kitchen to have a look, get some delicious food and then do my filial piety!" After finishing speaking, he ran, and Qin Hei, who had not yet entered the door outside the door, simply didn't say hello and went directly to the kitchen.

The old master smiled and said meaningfully: "It's really rare that Si Ran is busy with government affairs and can teach such a smart disciple!"

Li Siran smiled and said: "This son is extraordinary, he can fulfill a master-apprentice relationship, I know that it is enough!"

When the old master heard what he said, he immediately became suspicious, as if Li Siran, who had become a saint, had taken some advantage? Qin Song hurriedly said: "Our two grandsons are really too stubborn, and they have worked hard Brother Si Ran! After a while, Brother Si Ran's government affairs will be a little more relaxed, and he will still cause you some trouble. ”

The old master thought that Li Siran loved his disciples, and he didn't see his disciple for a few months before he choked Qin Song, but when he heard Qin Song say this, he felt that it was reasonable, and he no longer gathered Qin Zhigang's affairs at the moment, and continued to fight with Li Siran.

Qin Zhigang dragged the Pentium Wing to the kitchen and divided the golden ticket first, stuffed four posts on Qin Hei's body, stuffed two posts on himself, and let the Pentium Wing help him distribute it to the Win family tomorrow to join Qin Zhigang's craftsmen. Qin Hei didn't make a fuss with two thousand more golden tickets than Qin Zhigang, and he stuffed them into his arms one by one, but he couldn't stuff them and asked Qin Zhigang to hand over two posts to Pentium Wing.

After the golden ticket was divided, Qin Zhigang stayed in the kitchen to teach Pentengyi to make 'living water fish fillet', the child was hungry fast, Qin Hei took the egg yolk left over from the fish to cook the soup mash eggs and Qin Zhigang squatted by the stove to eat. Pentium Wing, who has never cooked, is still quick with his hands and feet, his eyes are accurate, and he strictly follows Qin Zhigang's requirements. He didn't feel embarrassed at all, because Mr. Xiaogang said that he would give him a reward of 100 gold if he did a good job, and the cooks who wanted to help were all blown away by the Pentium Wing. The temptation of one hundred gold is still very great, the main income of the ostrich clan now is to help Qin Zhigang raise chickens, the money comes very slowly, Qin Song is a very thrifty person, and the reward for Pentium Wing is relatively small, and it is very profitable to send letters and carry things, but Pentium Wing has not passed through the clouds quickly, this hundred gold reward Pentium Wing wants to get it very much, and learn to make this 'living water fish fillet' can also show his hand in front of his brothers.

Seeing that the little details of Pentium Wing's clumsy head had to be asked, Qin Zhigang was annoyed and took out a divine rosary to record the production of 'Spicy Live Water Fish Fillet', 'Umami Live Water Fish Fillet', and 'Hot and Sour Live Water Fish Fillet', and threw it to Pentium Wing for him to do it himself. There is even a fragrance in the Divine Nian Stone, the proportion of the ingredients, and the size of the heat are all available, and after seeing it, Pentium Wing laughed out loud and asked again and again: "Is Mr. Xiaogang going to give me these? The technology in this is for me? Can I sell the technology in this Divine Nian Stone?"

Qin Zhigang drank the last bit of sugar water in the bowl before he said impatiently: "What is given to you is yours, you first learn the method, and then go to different canteens to teach them, teach them once and collect money once, and if there is less than twenty gold, you will not teach once, and only teach one at a time!"

Pentium Wing's tears flowed out of his laughter, Mr. Xiaogang is really powerful, the canteen is rich in oil, spending twenty gold to learn a new dish is nothing, if they are not willing to pay to learn Penteng Wing, they are ready to sell fish fillets by themselves.

Qin Zhigang saw the plan of Pentium Wing and said: "If the canteen is not willing to pay for learning, you can definitely make them regret it, you go to Uncle Struggle to partner in opening a fish fillet shop, and it will be opened by Jinsha." Use a big boat to make a hotel, and in the future, you can also go down the river to do business near the county towns such as Fengxian and Blackstone, and buy more juice and ale wine, and the profit is thin, but the sales are good, and it should not be a big problem to earn two or three gold a day!"

After listening to Qin Zhigang's words, Ben Tengyi felt more confident in his heart, and worked hard to make two large pots of 'Xian Living Water Fish Fillet', and invited some juniors and disciples to carry the cauldron to the courtyard. When the old master smelled the fragrance, he remembered that he hadn't eaten for two days, and decided to eat first and then consider whether to continue talking. Li Siran is also a person who likes food, just by smelling the fragrance, he knows that it is fresh fish, and he also stands up and prepares to eat. Qin Song's body is now full of vitality, and he has a great demand for food, and he has long wanted to eat some rice after drinking ginseng soup for two days.

Qin Zhigang and Qin Hei respectfully occupied the pot and waited for the three wise men, and the old master said with relief: "The door style of the Qin Sage family is good!

Qin Song and Li Siran hurriedly said a few words modestly, and the gentlemen who were holding a big bowl of meat by the pot suddenly tightened their hands, and the principal of Xincheng handed the half-bowl of fish and meat to the old master with both hands and said, "Teacher, please eat!" The gentlemen also learned from the principal to serve the fish to the old master, and the old master took the bowl handed to him by the principal and said: "The children can be taught, let's eat them all, leave this pot to us!" After the old master finished speaking, he laughed heartily with Qin Song and Li Siran and sat down by the pot with a big bowl.

The principal and the teaching gentlemen greeted each other vigorously around a large cauldron, and the ginseng soup that had been drunk with the old master for two days was already rumbling in his stomach, and now that he had such a big pot of deliciousness, he didn't want to drink ginseng soup anymore. Qin Song's disciples saw that there was no place for the side of the pot at all, so they had to stand aside and light lanterns and torches. Pentium Wing didn't expect that the teachers and gentlemen of the school would be so fond of eating the fish he made, so he hurriedly beckoned the two junior brothers to go to the kitchen to help make a few more pots.

The kitchen people also used other pots and stoves to cook meals and send them to the courtyard, but it was obvious that the two cauldrons in the middle of the courtyard were the subject of dinner, and the people in the kitchen immediately understood the value of the two cauldrons, and someone immediately went to inform the Xincheng canteen.

The head of the canteen came with the chef and was immediately willing to pay a golden ticket to learn the unique skill of Pentium Wing, and Pentium Wing received twenty golden tickets before allowing them to watch themselves make 'umami live water fish fillet' on the side, and when Pentium Wing made two more pots, the chefs ran away, and they were busy returning to the food group to experiment immediately.

The master and the gentlemen of the school left the table to rest after eating most of their fill, and the Pentium Wing was completely immersed in strong joy, making pot after pot, and all the more than 200 catties of fresh fish that he brought back were all made. The brothers carried the prepared fish to the big courtyard and arranged them in several rows to greet each other, and Qin Song and Li Siran watched them eat for a while under Qin Zhigang's persuasion and went to rest.

After Qin Song left, Ben Teng Yi also sat down with a big basin to eat fish, and the brothers and sisters coaxed him for a while and said that he was very good at it! Ben Teng Yi told them that this craft was given by Mr. Xiao, and the brothers were very greedy, only Shi Yishan understood the key and said: "This is Mr. Xiao thanked the big ostrich for sending him a tiger demon disciple, I heard the teacher say that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish!" The little gentleman gave the big ostrich this creation, the sage's mind is not something we can guess, do things well, learn more and see more, don't look at the big ostrich to get the craft, this should have been his. ”

Du Hongqiao said while eating: "The craftsmanship is his, but the mouth is mine, as long as he makes it, I will eat." All the demons laughed and praised Pentium Wing's kindness and was rewarded.

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